Sadly the tour has run into some financial trouble, apparently stemming from a delay in government funding. This e-mail is a few days old but I wanted to pass it along: Dear friends and supporters of the Canadian Arctic Aviation Tour, As some may have heard, the Arctic Tour is currently on hold due ...

AirshowHawk wrote: ↑Tue Jul 18, 2017 1:29 am There is definitely a storm brewing up this year. We have the Lightning already, but I hear there's still something(s) missing... I'm no meteorologist though.

A pile of wood!!

Totally agree on the show line, but I am not such a grump that I cannot enjoy the jet teams when they appear. Luckily the show line is only in effect for a short duration of the week. I just hope they can figure out a better way to manage the Saturday night bum rush to the burn line. Someone will ge...

Thank you to everyone who has posted - I hope we will see more yet!

I wrote up a little tribute to Vlado on our blog earlier:

https://airshowstuff.com/v4/2017/vlado- ... ang-crash/

Here are some photos from a Massachusetts ANG flyover of a Boston Red Sox game:

https://www.facebook.com/TheNationsFirs ... 1063547865

Thanks for sharing! I moved the posts into the 2017 airshows category, a bit more fitting I think.

The Snowbirds are my favorite!

I am reminded of this special flyby (after the normal Heritage Flight) in 2007. This was a missing man formation to honor Jim Leroy, who died in a crash the day before this was filmed. Vlado was flying lead in Moonbeam. It now seems like a fitting tribute to him as well. https://youtu.be/0lTqjeWt73s...

I hope everyone will join me in posting some fond memories of Vlado in the coming days. I have seen him so many times that I don't even know what to post.

Copied from my Facebook: Absolutely devastated at the loss of Vlado today. Talk about one person I never expected to be mentioned like this. Amazing pilot, amazing guy. Always willing to help us pesky photographers out. Just this morning I was editing photos of him and Dave was getting to work on an...

The names of the occupants have been released by the local sheriff's department and as feared, Vlado Lenoch was the pilot.

The passenger was local airport manger Bethany Root.

http://mscnews.net/news/index.cfm?nk=62736